underlie
IPA: ʌndɝɫˈaɪ
verb
- (intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath something.
- (transitive) To lie under or beneath.
- (transitive) To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
- (transitive) To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
- (mining) To underlay.
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Examples of "underlie" in Sentences
- All the same, the calls underlie the urgency of an Iowa-or-bust race that pits U.S. Rep.
- This unique debate series will examine this divide and the social, economic, and moral beliefs that underlie politics in America today.
- In Australia the term "underlie" is used to designate the angle from the perpendicular at which the lode lies in its enclosing rocks, and by
- He calls it the "underlying principles" approach, which in his words, "discern [s] from the text the deeper underlying principles that underlie is particular injunctions."
- Often Morris had read or heard of the bewildering power of women, which for his part hitherto he had been inclined to attribute to shallow and very common causes, such as underlie all animate nature.
- The overlapping scales are formed from hairs glued together, there are no dermal plates such as underlie the horny scales of the Armadillo, very much in the same manner as the horn of the Rhinoceros which has no bony core.
- "So when Siri goes out into the Internet looking for what an abortion center is or what an abortion provider is, it hits on these non-abortion-providing organizations because they're the ones who use the word to underlie their websites," Poeter says.
- The three R's of Hebrew love thus show how these people arranged their marriages with reference to social and religious customs or utilitarian considerations, buying their wives by service or otherwise, without any thought of sentimental preferences and sympathies, such as underlie modern Christian marriages of the higher order.
- December 18, 2006 • 6: 45 pm the shia thug from mumbai her words gilded silence as her thoughts zip by ravishing my soul choking my unborn cry my tongue tie her shut lips her shut mouth her shut doors my pain underlie golden silence imply one sided love blinded in an eye hope runs dry crushed by the weight of another good bye picture shot by mr subash solanki of subash electronics posted 12 oct 2006
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